Every Version of Skyrim You Can Play in 2024

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Quickly becoming Bethesda Game Studio's most successful release and one of the best-selling games of all time, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has remained a fixture of the company's lineup even years after it hit shelves, with the studio repackaging and reselling it multiple times. From handheld ports and next-gen upgrades to full-on VR recreations, Skyrim is a game that you can play pretty much anywhere at this point.

But, with so many versions of Skyrim to choose from, which should you play in 2024? With multiple editions spread across PlayStation, Xbox, PC and even Switch, it can be tricky to know which release of the game is best suited for the experience you're searching for. Luckily, we've got you covered. Below, we've put together a full guide on all the versions of Skyrim currently available and what's included in each package. You should have plenty of time to play it before The Elder Scrolls 6 arrives.

In total, there have been seven unique releases of Skyrim released across nine different platforms. One of these is a version completely playable through Amazon Alexa known as Skyrim: Very Special Edition, which functioned entirely through voice commands. It was largely released as a simple, fun nod to the countless memes about how frequently Skyrim was remastered and, although we can appreciate Alexa dryly describing your epic showdown with a wandering Mudcrab, we won't include it in the list.

We'll also be moving past 2013's Skyrim: Legendary Edition, which was a bundle including the base release of the game and its three expansions. With the release of Special Edition in 2016, Legendary Edition was delisted from Steam. Although you can technically still buy second-hand physical copies of this version on Xbox 360 and PS3, it's not a product Bethesda still sells and so it's one we'll skip over.

That leaves us with five different versions of Skyrim to run through. So, without further ado, let's get started.

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